Four Stages of Life - Verse 110
Vayu Purana (G. V. Tagare English translation) · 8 · Verse 110
Sanskrit Original
The minimum width of a dwelling is twenty-four Hastas and the maximum is eight hundred Hastas. But they Draise a middle one which is neither too narrow nor too wide. 111 Important dwellings shall be constructed in a site eight hundred K«k,s wide. A hamlet hat half Are dtame.er of the city and a village is bigger than that. 112 A hamlet shall be situated a Yojana away from a city and a village shall be half a Yojana away from a hamlet Two KroSas is the maximum boundary. The boundary o a e f°Ur ilTThe highway shall be twenty Dhanus wide. The tnam road in the village shall also be twenty Dkanus wide. But the road in the border-land shall be only ten Dhanus wide.
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